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From: toriw@online.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen)
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Subject: Re: Loki Paper 2: Character Sets
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:08:15 GMT
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:34:24 +0100 (MET), John Cowan
<cowan@locke.ccil.org> uttered:

>The problem then arises of what to do with Mjolner source code that uses
>"\" in non-standard ways; I propose not to worry about the issue at
>present.  Ideally, the Mjolner compiler would check that every "\" was
>followed by a "u" character and exactly four hexadecimal digits in the
>range 00a0-00fd.

Note that Java _also_ allows C-style character specification with
three-digit octal character values for ISO-8859-1. Allowing checking
for 8xXXX constants in strings would perhaps be asking too much... :-)

(Plus the \t, \n, \r, etc. values, except \a).

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen       toriw@online.no